In Magento 1.6, changes to login.phtml don’t reflect

Question

I customized the file app\design\frontend\base\default\template\checkout\onepage\login.phtml to hide the login fields in onepage checkout. It works well in 1.5 version.

When I do the same modifications in 1.6 version, nothing changes in the frontend. I observed that in 1.6 version, onepage.phtml is not using onepage\login.phtml unlike in 1.5. I did the basic checks of file location mistake(base\default and default\default) and cache refresh.

I am having trouble figuring out which login.phtml is being picked up in onepage.phtml in the line getChildHTML(’login’) [to display the login fields in checkout step 1].

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Your problem may be related to the following Thread http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/viewthread/243571/ about Persistent Shopping Cart.

I encoutered a similar issue because of the template override name:

• before 1.6, my template override was: frontend/default//template/customer/form/login.phtml

• 1.6: frontend/default//template/persistent/customer/form/login.phtml Elsewhere you can find the default template path from 1.6 : frontend/base/default/template/persistent/customer/form/login.phtml

For more information about Persistent Shopping Cart, please refer to http://www.magentocommerce.com/blog/comments/persistent-shopping-cart-customer-segmentation-just-getting-better/